• Red Painting #10, 2019 • acrylic on canvas, 92 × 63 cm
    Red Painting #10, 2019 • acrylic on canvas, 92 × 63 cm
  • Red Painting #9, 2019 • acrylic on canvas, 92 × 63 cm
    Red Painting #9, 2019 • acrylic on canvas, 92 × 63 cm
  • Red Painting #8, 2019 • acrylic on canvas, 92 × 63 cm
    Red Painting #8, 2019 • acrylic on canvas, 92 × 63 cm
  • Red Painting ≠21, 1994 • acrylic and linen on stretcher, 56 x 51 cm
    Red Painting ≠21, 1994 • acrylic and linen on stretcher, 56 x 51 cm
  • Vom Geschmack eines Apfels, 2023 • Installation view at PEAC Museum Freiburg, (DE)
    Vom Geschmack eines Apfels, 2023 • Installation view at PEAC Museum Freiburg, (DE)
  • Vom Geschmack eines Apfels, 2023 • Installation view at PEAC Museum Freiburg, (DE)
    Vom Geschmack eines Apfels, 2023 • Installation view at PEAC Museum Freiburg, (DE)
  • CONTEMPLATING COLOR, 2015 • installation view at Philadelphia Museum of Art (USA)
    CONTEMPLATING COLOR, 2015 • installation view at Philadelphia Museum of Art (USA)
  • CONTEMPLATING COLOR, 2015 • installation view at Philadelphia Museum of Art (USA)
    CONTEMPLATING COLOR, 2015 • installation view at Philadelphia Museum of Art (USA)
  • Sanctuary for Light, 2009 • installation view Art Unlimited, Art 40 Basel
    Sanctuary for Light, 2009 • installation view Art Unlimited, Art 40 Basel
  • Sanctuary for Light, 2009 • installation view Art Unlimited, Art 40 Basel
    Sanctuary for Light, 2009 • installation view Art Unlimited, Art 40 Basel

News

New York Studio School, New York

Nov 14, 2025 – Jan 5, 2026

The New York Studio School is pleased to present Joseph Marioni: Artist’s Choice, a works on paper retrospective, curated by Karen Wilkin, featuring more than thirty works on paper that trace the evolution of a painter’s half-century engagement with color, surface, and perception.

Marioni’s little-known works on paper offer a glimpse into a lifelong exploration rather than a definitive statement or conclusion. They bear witness to his investigation of the presentation of color on a flat surface. Neither representational nor abstracted from nature, they resist the conventions of drawing or depiction.

These works reflect the same convictions as Marioni’s paintings, yet operate in a different register. Executed primarily in oil pastel on papers ranging from cold-press watercolor to black German etching paper, they emphasize the pigment’s materiality as it lies richly on the surface while also articulating structural relationships between colored elements within the flat plane.

Joseph Marioni: Artist’s Choice underscores two concerns central to his practice: the truth to materials—does the medium exist honestly as itself? and the philosophical function of light—how does our perception of color place us within the dance of illumination itself? These inquiries, grounded in both craft and contemplation, unite the artist’s works on paper and paintings through a shared pursuit: to make visible the living presence of color, which Marioni believed to be the irreducible quality

f painting.

Joseph Marioni: Artist’s Choice invites viewers to experience this sustained dialogue between material and light, surface and perception, questioning and seeing.

Joseph Marioni: Artist’s Choice. A Works on Paper Retrospective is on view from November 14, 2025 – January 5, 2026. There will be an opening reception on November 14, 2025 from 6–8 PM. 

On Wednesday November 19, Harry Cooper, Bonnie Leal, and Timothy Rub will join curator Karen Wilkin in a panel discussion on Joseph Marioni: Artist’s Choice at 6:30 PM. The lecture is free and open to the public, hosted in person at 8 W 8th Street and livestreamed on Zoom and YouTube Live.

Four Honest Outlaws – Sala Ray Marioni Gordon

published by Michael Fried for the Yale University Press
In this strongly argued and characteristically original book, Michael Fried considers the work of four contemporary artists: video artist and photographer Anri Sala, sculptor Charles Ray, painter Joseph Marioni, and video artist and intervener in movies Douglas Gordon.
«Four Honest Outlaws» takes its title from a line in a Bob Dylan song, «To live outside the law you must be honest», meaning in this case that each of the four artists has found his own unsanctioned path to extraordinary accomplishment, in part by defying the ordinary norms and expectations of the contemporary art world.
Michael Fried will moderate a symposium «PAINTING NOW: A discussion taking off from the work of Joseph Marioni»,
The Phillips Collection, Washington, DC (USA), December 10, 2011

Gallery Exhibitions

Group Show (Adieu Gessnerallee!)

Jan 15 – Mar 12, 2011